L1: Developer Environment Setup

Objectives

1. Set up and use lab software

   1. Understand how to use the classroom computers / your personal computers for classwork

   2. Create a WSL container on the classroom computer

   3. Setup VSCode with your WSL container

   4. Install and update packages on the Debian operating system

2. Use git/GitHub for completing and submitting lab and assignment work

Deliverables

• Setup: Developer environment on lab computer and personal computer set up

  • Hardware & stuff survey complete

  • Environment demo in-class on Monday or Friday.

Setup

• On Moodle, complete the Lab 0 [Hardware & stuff survey][survey]

• On the course website, complete

  • [Developer environment prerequisites][dev-env-setup]

  • This is essentially what we did in class on Jan 24, but with further clarifications.

• On your developer machine:

  • Clone this repository onto your developer environment

• On this repository:

  • Pull in the latest instruction changes

  • Create the lab-0 branch

  • Once you’ve finished the linked instructions, the CAUTION note at the top of these instructions (lab-0/README.md) will disappear.

[!NOTE] If you will use a personal computer for this class, you need to do the developer environment set up on BOTH (1) a lab computer and (2) your personal computer(s).

Rubric

• Survey complete

• WSL set up on lab computer

• Dev environment on personal computer (one of four options)

  • Windows: Same as lab computer

  • OS X: [OSX setup][dev-env-setup] complete

  • Linux: [Linux setup][dev-env-setup] complete

  • None of the above (if no personal computer will be used)

• labwork branch cloned to your developer environment

• lab-0 branch instruction update complete

Course Info   Milestone 1: Project Setup